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Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by anigbrowl »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #102

Say what you will about Elon, but this wouldn't have happened without him. Thanks! And thank you to everyone at Twitter who helped organize this release. Open sourcing something like this is no small effort.

I am not sure about that. Twitter has open sourced a lot of stuff in the past. There were certainly people there who would run the site as a nonprofit public service if they had the choice.

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by kayodelycaon »

zachnwhite wrote: post #118
sillysaurusx wrote: post #102

Say what you will about Elon, but this wouldn't have happened without him. Thanks! And thank you to everyone at Twitter who helped organize this release. Open sourcing something like this is no small effort.

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The importance of Twitter was it being the primary posting location for a lot of things. A number of the artists and other creatives I know have gotten absolutely gutted by this.

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Post by phailhaus »

Great! But nothing is going to change until people realize that the problem is the feedback loop. It's not the recommendation engine itself, it's the fact that there's no way "out" of the feed that the engine produces. It recommends you stuff, you have little choice but to engage with it, and then it trains on that information.

This is the problem with most of social media today. It is a very well known problem in ML [1], but nobody is willing to do anything about it because it's a fundamental UX change. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, they have defined themselves by their recommendation engines.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/dangerous-feedback-loops-in-m...

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by anigbrowl »

zachnwhite wrote: post #132
sillysaurusx wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be nothing without Twitter. It's had more impact on my life than any other platform. I got lucky, but luck was only part of it. Being able to DM people is incredible. It's the AOL Messenger of 2023. If it went offline, it'd be a terrible loss.

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This isn't /g/, you have to employ a minimum level of politeness here.

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by sillysaurusx »

zachnwhite wrote: post #132
sillysaurusx wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be nothing without Twitter. It's had more impact on my life than any other platform. I got lucky, but luck was only part of it. Being able to DM people is incredible. It's the AOL Messenger of 2023. If it went offline, it'd be a terrible loss.

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I did. Your mother sends her regards.

(Joking aside, you’ll find HN to be a wonderful place to hang out, but only if you get into the right mindset. In the meantime, enjoy your weekend.)

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by zaroth »

bradly wrote: post #136
simonsarris wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be great (unweighting bluechecks) but they actually plan to go in the other direction: Starting April 15th non-bluechecks won't show up in the "For you" section (the algorithm timeline) at all. Unpaid users are being written completely out of the algo. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1640502698549075972

I believe LeBron James said recently he isn't going to waste his money on a blue checkmark, so it should be interesting to see what stays and what goes.

LeBron doesn’t get $84 of value from Twitter? Definitely not a political statement going on there.
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